{"product_id":"ancient-records-of-egypt-the-first-through-the-seventeenth-dynasties-vol-1-volume-1-9780252069901","title":"Ancient Records of Egypt: The First Through the Seventeenth Dynasties  Vol. 1 (Volume 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAround the turn of the last century  James Henry Breasted took on the challenge of assembling all the available historical documents of ancient Egypt and translating them into English. This prodigious undertaking involved traveling to the monuments extant in the Nile valley and in outlying areas of Egyptian conquest  as well as to museums throughout Europe where Egyptian relics were housed. Breasted made his own copies of hundreds of Egyptian records inscribed on papyrus or leather or carved in stone and engaged in a thorough study of the published records of Egyptian history in conjunction with his own transcription of the documents themselves. This five-volume compendium is the result.  Breasteds monumental work  originally published from 1906 to 1907  encompasses twenty-six dynasties spanning more than three millennia: from ca. 3050 B.C. to 525 B.C. For each document  Breasted provides information on location  condition  historical significance  and content. Beginning with the earliest known official annals of Egypt  the Palermo Stone  Breasted catalogs the realms official activities  including royal succession  temple construction  property distribution  and foreign conquest. He tracks the careers of scores of kings  queens  government officials  military leaders  powerful statesmen  and influential courtiers  reproducing their autobiographies  letters of favor  paeans  mortuary gifts  and tomb inscriptions. Clearly annotated for the lay reader  the documents provide copious evidence of trade relations  construction activities  diplomatic envoys  foreign expeditions  and other aspects of a vigorous  highly organized  and centrally controlled society.  Breasteds commentary is both rigorously documented and accessible  suffused with a contagious fascination for the events  the personalities  the cultural practices  and the sophistication these records indicate. A herculean assemblage of primary documents  many of which have deteriorated to illegibility in the intervening century  Ancient Records of Egypt illuminates both the incredible complexity of Egyptian society and the almost insuperable difficulties of reconstructing a lost civilization.  This first paperback edition of Ancient Records of Egypt features a new introduction and supplementary bibliographies by Peter A. Piccione. Setting Breasteds work in the context of the development of American Egyptology  Piccione discusses Breasteds establishment of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago  with corporate support by John D. Rockefeller and other benefactors  and surveys the ambitious body of publications with which Breasted laid the foundation for future Egyptian studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666256289845,"sku":"ByrdShop_0252069900","price":98.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780252069901.jpg?v=1782425517","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ancient-records-of-egypt-the-first-through-the-seventeenth-dynasties-vol-1-volume-1-9780252069901","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}